Broken Memories Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Reflections in a mirror, portraying images through
windows once filled with broken life.

Now at a standstill, cracked and faded memories
slowly slither by.

Backed by many volumes of knowledge, sorrow stands
tall, forlornly banked upon deserted images of
yesterday, tomorrow doesn't seem to beckon anymore.

Left alone to surmise the testimony of years, light
has shone upon hidden ideas.

Through many years of darkness, shadows have noticed
all which has gone on before.

Footprints have disappeared beneath the waves on
desert shores.

Beset by vacant stares throughout the history of time,
silence, like a beacon shining forth, lands upon
reflections, broken in a mirror.

Too far beyond repair, they have been forgotten,
leaving behind their relationships strewn like broken
glass upon the floor.

Windows cracked and fading, looking on, always as before -
lost in broken memories too tired now to last.